samplesj wrote:
Its likely unless you are fairly careful that the receiver is going to put the input signal through an ADC and then back through its DAC even when fed analog.
A lot of (all?) reasonably priced consumer theater receivers convert all analog signals to digital using their own ADC so they can do things like room mode, virtual effects, cathedral mode, etc. It takes a fairly expensive one to even have pure pass thru analog. For a lot of folks, they need bass management, since their main speakers are too small to play bass, all the sat/sub systems need to digitize things just to fire up the bass management software.
For any of these receivers, using their internal DAC makes sense even though it is unlikely that they are as 'good' or well engineered as the one in the SB3. Not so slam Yamaha, Pioneer, etc, but because we know Sean cares about this stuff, and makes it one of his design goals.
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